Barbara Ferri Books

The second volume in Jean-Claude Izzo's acclaimed Marseilles Trilogy, featuring ex-cop Fabio Montale.

The Final Book in the Marseilles Trilogy Ex-cop, loner, Fabio Montale returns in this stunning conclusion to Jean-Claude Izzo's Marseilles trilogy. Italian Mafiosi are hunting journalist-activist Babette Bellini, and the body count is growing as they close in on their prey. In desperation, Bellini seeks help from her former lover, Montale. Before he has time to shake off his most recent hangover, Montale is receiving sinister phone calls from men with Italian accents who want him to find Bellini for them. Like a woman he can't leave, like strong liquor he can't refuse, Marseilles lures Montale back into its violent embrace. This is a Marseilles that will break your heart. A modern city and an ancient Mediterranean port, a melting pot of ethnicities and a cauldron boiling with human passions, a place of natural splendor and of sudden violence. Solea is Izzo's heartfelt cry against the criminal forces corrupting his beloved city. It is his farewell to Marseilles and to its ideal protagonist, Fabio Montale. It concludes an unforgettable trilogy that epitomizes the aspirations and ideals of the Mediterranean noir movement.

Izzo's Marseille is explosive, tragic, breathtakingly beautiful and deadly.

Chourmo è il secondo noir che appartiene alla celebre Trilogia di Marsiglia. Il commissario Fabio Montale ha lasciato la polizia, di cui non ha mai condiviso la politica repressiva nei confronti dei giovani immigrati e tantomeno le collusioni di alcuni colleghi con mafiosi e appartenenti al Front National di Le Pen. Quando il figlio sedicenne di una sua cugina viene trovato morto, dopo essere stato cacciato di casa dal patrigno a causa di un flirt con una coetanea araba, Montale deve indagare da solo tra gli interessi malavitosi sul porto di Marsiglia, le violenze razziste del Front National e i gruppi fondamentalisti islamici che fanno proseliti tra i giovani disperati dei casermoni di periferia.